{"product_id":"carter-catherine-w-by-stone-apb","title":"Carter, Catherine W.: By Stone and Needle","description":"\u003cp\u003eLSU Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: July 1, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShimmering to the pulse of the unseen, \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003ecircles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBy Stone and Needle \u003c\/i\u003espin connecting threads between night sweats, witch drownings, creation stories, pedicures, goddesses--and, especially, between miraculously interconnected ecosystems and the forces that threaten them. Speakers encompass personae including lactobacilli bacteria, bodily yeasts, and the classical witch Medea, while elsewhere a contemporary version of the goddess Artemis appears in Appalachia. Carter's poetic vision imbues everyday moments such as putting on a coat, piercing an ear, confronting racism and patriarchy, or eating onion slices with a new definition of magic as \"the human thing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44165075435543,"sku":"9780807185070","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780807185070.jpg?v=1767989762","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/carter-catherine-w-by-stone-apb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}